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| Toshiba Machinery appointed outsiders to new board |
6/28/2019 |
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The board reached a proportion of outsiders unheard of among Japanese peers with the new lineup, which Toshiba proposed last month in response to shareholder pressure. The 10 outside directors are up from seven on the previous board, while four of the 10 hail from outside Japan.
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| U.S. first quarter GDP grew 3.1% |
6/27/2019 |
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But signs are mounting that growth has slowed sharply in the current quarter amid slower global growth and a confidence-shaking trade battle between the United States and China.
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| EU warns Broadcom of possible antitrust on TV and modem chips |
6/27/2019 |
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The European Commission said the so-called interim measures, the first in 18 years, were warranted because of Broadcom’s likely dominance in the TV and modem chipset markets and deals between the company and seven major customers that resulted in the latter buying chips only from Broadcom.
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| Micron redices Capex spending |
6/27/2019 |
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Micron said that it would slash capital spending for its fiscal 2019, which closes in August, to about $9 billion, down about 10% from the company’s estimate of about $10.5 billion at the start of the fiscal year. Micron said that it expects its fiscal 2020 capital expenditures to be “meaningfully lower” than fiscal 2019.
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| Micron Technology has resumed some shipments to Huawei Technologies |
6/26/2019 |
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Micron had stopped all shipments to Huawei after the Commerce Department in May added the Chinese company to a blacklist, a move the Trump administration said would prevent U.S. technology from being used to undermine U.S. security and policy interests. The company, however, found that it could actually ship a subset of its products that weren’t subject to restrictions on blacklisted companies
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| Qualcomm to face another European Union antitrust fine |
6/26/2019 |
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The EU’s current Qualcomm investigation targets 3G chips for internet mobile dongles sold between 2009 and 2011. Regulators allege these were sold below cost in order to push Icera, now owned by Nvidia Corp., out of the market.
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| Foxconn to pair 8K camera with 5G on next generation handsets |
6/26/2019 |
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Following two years of efforts, Foxconn has completed the 8K+5G ecosystems, covering SoCs for 8K cameras, compression and decompression technologies for 8K image transmission, wired and 5G wireless transmission environments, as well as terminal displays and applications.
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| ARM to crank up investment in Taiwan |
6/26/2019 |
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Masayoshi Son told reporters that ARM would expand its investments in Taiwan in areas such as the Internet of Things and autonomous vehicles, and would hire more engineers, as well as research and development specialists.
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| Massive expansion at Seattle to quintuple Apple's headcount there |
6/25/2019 |
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The company announced at a Monday news conference that it would be bringing 2,000 jobs to the city by 2024 -- twice the number it initially planned. The new roles would focus on software and hardware and effectively multiply Apple's existing workforce by five.
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| Amazon's Prime Day sale set for July 15 |
6/25/2019 |
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There will be more than 1 million deals available worldwide, which is the same number Amazon offered last year. The company had routinely amped up this figure as a way of showing the growth of Prime Day.
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| New Raspberry Pi 4 is indeed very powerful |
6/25/2019 |
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It has quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 cores, Gbit Ethernet, 4Kp60 HEVC video decode and dual HDMI outputs to run twin 4K monitors – many of the changes have been made to improve consumer and industrial performance, without compromising its original educational role.
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| U.S. government has a punch list of companies to warn of supplying Huawei |
6/25/2019 |
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The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it was adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications to its national security “entity list” that bars them from buying U.S. parts and components without government approval.
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| Huawei slamming the FedEx action as a "vendetta." |
6/24/2019 |
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The smartphone in question had been sent by the U.K. office of PCMag to U.S. colleagues. The note attached to the returned parcel was unambiguous: "Parcel returned by FedEx due to U.S. Government with Huawei and China Government—return to sender."
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| Universal memory could solve the digital technology energy crisis |
6/24/2019 |
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With this new device, it would be possible to immediately reduce peak power consumption in data centres by as much as a fifth. It would also allow, computers which do not need to boot up and could instantaneously and imperceptibly go into an energy-saving sleep mode - even between key stokes.
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| Huawei ban opens opportuntiy for Taiwan suppliers |
6/24/2019 |
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Huawei has stepped up purchases of chip components from Taiwan-based companies, in the face of a ban on its purchases of US-made parts. An estimated 20-50% increase will boost the related Taiwan-based suppliers' revenues in the second half of 2019 and 2020,
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| Analyst warns a bad year for memory |
6/24/2019 |
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The memory chip market was initially expected to hit rock bottom in the fourth quarter of this year, but the US investor has postponed the timeline for its prediction to the second quarter of 2020. The NAND flash market will bottom out in the fourth quarter, about three months later than previously predicted,
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| Alexa listens to your heart and detects cardiac arrest |
6/21/2019 |
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“Researchers have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep without touching them,” the university says. “A new skill for a smart speaker — like Google Home and Amazon Alexa — or smartphone lets the device detect the gasping sound of agonal breathing and call for help.”
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| How to expand ways in wireless charging ? |
6/21/2019 |
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Researchers from the University of Tokyo, led by doctoral student Takuya Sasatani, Disney Research and the University of Michigan in the U.S. have created a room-sized device which uses magnetic fields to charge compatible devices inside it.
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| Memory market ASP predicted to drop 40% |
6/20/2019 |
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DRAM and NAND revenues hit a record high of around $160 billion in 2018, for a CAGR of 32% between 2016 and 2018. However a hit to demand and over-capacity have hit revenues and profits.
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